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A portion of the tube used for A.A. Michelson's velocity of light experiments, Irvine

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Title: A portion of the tube used for A.A. Michelson's velocity of light experiments, Irvine
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932-11-25
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A portion of the tube used for A.A. Michelson's velocity of light experiment from inside the house in Irvine. What appears to be an electric control box sits in front of the tube. The interior walls of the building are made from corrugated sheet metal. The room is filled with additional electric appliances and equipment.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: 1 4X5 film neg
Identifier: COPC 720
28717
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1664
Subject: Tubes
Electric apparatus and appliances
Electric controllers
Electric switchgear
Corrugated sheet metal
Interior walls
Buildings--California--Irvine--Photographs
Interiors
Wire
Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931
Light--Speed--Experiments
Light--Experiments
Irvine (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Irvine (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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